irony, geniality, and malice as solvents of enthusiasm, virtue, and elevation

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Royal baby announcement

The Duchess of Cambridge was safely delivered of a son at 4.24pm on 22 July. Follow the Clarence House Twitter account for the latest updates.

The text above is from the home page of www.royal.gov.uk this morning. We launched the Monarchy on Twitter in July 2009 (Icons passim). I remember the odd eyebrow was raised then. Now it's just business as usual.

(Speaking of business as usual, normal service was resumed at the Antelope quiz last night as we won again.)